I'm trying to display a pdf file in php, I used:
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
#myiframe {width:600px; height:100%;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="scroller">
<iframe name="myiframe" id="myiframe" src="xml.pdf">
</div>
</body>
</html>
it works in html well, but when I want to used this code into a php file, it displays nothing and only try to download the pdf file. Can anybody help me?
There are quite a few options that can be used: (both tested).
Here are two ways.
header("Content-type: application/pdf");
header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=filename.pdf");
@readfile('path\to\filename.pdf');
or: (note the escaped double-quotes). The same need to be use when assigning a name to it.
<?php
echo "<iframe src=\"file.pdf\" width=\"100%\" style=\"height:100%\"></iframe>";
?>
I.e.: name="myiframe" id="myiframe"
would need to be changed to:
name=\"myiframe\" id=\"myiframe\" inside PHP.
Be sure to have a look at: this answer on SO for more options on the subject.
Footnote: There are known issues when trying to view PDF files in Windows 8. Installing Adobe Acrobat Reader is a better method to view these types of documents if no browser plug-ins are installed.
Try this below code
<?php
$file = 'dummy.pdf';
$filename = 'dummy.pdf';
header('Content-type: application/pdf');
header('Content-Disposition: inline; filename="' . $filename . '"');
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));
header('Accept-Ranges: bytes');
@readfile($file);
?>
Download PDFObject library from https://pdfobject.com/ and check the below code: I hope it will work you.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Pdf Read</title>
<style>
.pdfobject-container { height: 500px;}
.pdfobject { border: 1px solid #666; }
</style>
<script src="pdfobject.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="example1"></div>
<script>PDFObject.embed("pdfread.pdf", "#example1");</script>
</body>
</html>
if(isset($_GET['content'])){
$content = $_GET['content'];
$dir = $_GET['dir'];
header("Content-type:".$content);
@readfile($dir);
}
$directory = (file_exists("mydir/"))?"mydir/":die("file/directory doesn't exists");// checks directory if existing.
//the line above is just a one-line if statement (syntax: (conditon)?code here if true : code if false; )
if($handle = opendir($directory)){ //opens directory if existing.
while ($file = readdir($handle)) { //assign each file with link <a> tag with GET params
echo '<a target="_blank" href="?content=application/pdf&dir='.$directory.'">'.$file.'</a>';
}
}
if you click the link a new window will appear with the pdf file
Simple way to display pdf files from database and we can download it.
$resume is pdf file name which comes from database.
../resume/filename is path of folder where your file is stored.
<a href="../resumes/<?php echo $resume; ?>"/><?php echo $resume; ?></a>